Charles Brenton Huggins
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Charles Brenton Huggins 🇨🇦

Charles B. Huggins (Known as "Charles Brenton Huggins")
Nobel Laureate Physician, Father of Hormonal Therapy for Cancer
Born 22 September 1901 🇨🇦 Halifax, Canada
Passed Away 12 January 1997 Chicago, United States
Lifespan 95 years old
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"The discovery that cancer can be controlled by systemic hormone manipulation opened a completely new era of hope in oncology."

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Halifax-born cancer researcher who discovered that hormones could regulate metastatic prostate and breast cancer, winning the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Charles Brenton Huggins was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and graduated from Acadia University before earning his medical degree at Harvard. Joining the faculty of the University of Chicago, Huggins conducted revolutionary research into the biochemical physiology of the prostate gland.

In 1941, Huggins made the historic discovery that metastatic prostate cancer is androgen-dependent and can be dramatically arrested by estrogen administration or castration. This was the first proof in human history that cancer could be controlled and regressed by non-toxic chemical signals, establishing hormonal oncology. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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GPS: 41.7767, -87.5967
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